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Well, it's hard to believe another Stamp-a-faire has come and gone! It went by in a blink of an eye! The anniversary materials theme was definitely a hit and offered a little something for everyone! Did you have a favorite tutorial or challenge?

Just in case you missed any of this popular event, you can check out complete archives HERE.

Because of all of you and your enthusiasm, you have made this another great event! So thank you!!! We couldn't possibly ask for customers to be more engaged!

And now for the real reason you've stopped by tonight, THE WINNERS! A pretty big deal since there aresince there are FORTY-TWO of you! All project winners will receive a $20 gift certificate and comment winners a $10 gift certificate.

You can click the link below to check out all of the individual challenge winners!

We are pleased to introduce an exclusive presentation from Carissa Wiley.

"Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by today. I’m Carissa Wiley and I’m so excited to be here as a guest for Paper Trey Ink’s Stamp-A-Faire! Today I’m going to be sharing some ways to create a faux tin foil look on your card projects In the video below, I’ll walk you through two card projects using these techniques."

To create my faux tin look, I’ll be using the Nuvo Gilding Flakes in Silver Bullion. Gilding flakes have been on the market for quite some time and seem to be making a come back this year. I wanted to share a few ways to use these on your cards. The gilding flakes leave you with a metallic shine that is slightly more antiqued than a traditional foil.

There are a few ways you can add these gilding flakes to your card projects. Here are just a few.

Use a double-sided adhesive sheet to create gilded die cuts. For this technique, I prefer to use the Be Creative double-sided sheets. I add the adhesive to my cardstock and then run that through my die cut machine with the adhesive side facing toward the cutting blade. I’m left with a die cut that has sticky adhesive all over the front. I can then expose my adhesive and press the gilding flakes in to the adhesive.

Use a glue pen to add gilded embellishments to your stamped images. Today’s second card features a few little accents on top of my stamped images. I simply added some glue, using a glue pen in the areas where I wanted to add my tin accents. It’s important that you use a glue that dries tacky for this technique. I used the Zig Two Way Glue Pen. You can draw lines, dots….whatever you want. I allowed the glue to dry before adhering my gilding flakes. Once the glue is dry, it will be tacky. I pressed my gilding flakes to the areas with glue and voila, custom tin accents on a stamped image.

Use double-sided tape to create stripes on your project. I used the Be Creative tape in 1/8 width to create a stripe running diagonally along the front of my card. You can use varying widths to create more stripes. Or add multiple colors of gilding flakes. Once my adhesive was added to the front of my card, I removed the backer and pressed the flakes to the adhesive. I love adding these metallic stripes to my card projects.

Use a sticky embossing powder to gild stamped images. I didn’t show this technique in today’s video, but you can use a sticky or bonding embossing powder to adhere gilding flakes to your stamped images to create a metallic stamped image. This gives you a different look than using metallic embossing powders. Try it out!

For all of my projects, I used a box to contain my flakes. These gilding flakes are very fine and very light and can definitely go flying on you! Using a box helps to keep the flakes contained.

Once the gilding flakes are applied to your project, use a brush to brush away the excess flakes and remove any rough edges that the flakes may have left behind.

Now it's your turn! Create a project featuring gilding flakes. You can choose to re-create the exact project from Carissa above or design your own using the same concepts. Your project must also incorporate at least one Papertrey product.

Post your project on your blog, in your gallery, Instagram or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).

Add your project to the InLinkz list below.

You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. One project per person please.

As a reminder, you will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win.

One randomly selected winners will be chosen from all of the InLinkz entries on this post on Thursday, August 31st. The winner will be posted on our Thursday night Stamp-a-faire winners page after 9pm ET. The randomly selected winner will get a $20 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!

One randomly selected winner will be chosen from the comments of this post on Thursday as well. You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st to add your comment and be eligible to win. The randomly selected winner will get a $10 PTI gift certificate.

Carissa is such a thoughtful, thorough designer! What a treat for all of us to learn so much from her! Which of her techniques do you think you will try first? Have you worked with gilding flakes before? Has Carissa inspired you to use them in a new way? This is the last challenge for this event, so embrace it and create something fabulous!

"Hey everyone! Are you enjoying all of the amazing challenges so far? Are you ready for another one? My Anniversary material is Aluminum +Tin! Adding metals to cards is so trendy right now and with the technique I will be sharing it couldn’t be easier! I am showing how to create the Tarnished Foil technique. This is a perfect technique for creating cards for the upcoming Fall season, but is versatile enough to use anytime! With all of the supplies being readily available, it’s something that everyone can do! I’m so very excited to be hosting this challenge and cannot wait to see what you all create!"

Now it's your turn! Create a project featuring some form of the tarnished foil technique. You can choose to re-create the exact project from Laurie above or design your own using the same concepts. Your project must also incorporate at least one Papertrey product.

Post your project on your blog, in your gallery, Instagram or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).

Add your project to the InLinkz list below.

You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. One project per person please.

As a reminder, you will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win.

One randomly selected winners will be chosen from all of the InLinkz entries on this post on Thursday, August 31st. The winner will be posted on our Thursday night Stamp-a-faire winners page after 9pm ET. The randomly selected winner will get a $20 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!

One randomly selected winner will be chosen from the comments of this post on Thursday as well. You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st to add your comment and be eligible to win. The randomly selected winner will get a $10 PTI gift certificate.

I love the results that Laurie was able achieve with this technique. And to think it is just ordinary supplies from around the house! How do you think you might apply this technique to a project? Are there some other products you want to pair up with it? We look forward to seeing your projects!

"I've always loved the way simple, classic salt dough tags look on gifts for the holidays, but hated to make the salt dough! Then a while back I discovered THIS recipe, and I fell back in love with this look. It's so easy to make and really gives you fantastic results. I gave the traditional dough tags a little unique twist by covering them with a bit custom stamped tissue paper. With this easy video tutorial, you can make up a whole batch early and be ahead of the game for the holidays!"

Make dough according to the recipe found HERE. Allow to cool to room temperature and roll out to 1/4" thick or so. Cut out tags using about a 3" cookie cutter, then cut hole using drinking straw. To help prevent the cookie cutter and straw from sticking to the dough, dip them in cornstarch between cuts.

Spray tissue pieces with a matte fixative (or hairspray) to prevent the colors from bleeding later on. Allow to dry 5-10 minutes.

Tear top edge of tissue pieces. Brush Matte Mod Podge onto bottom half of tag, including the edge. Press tissue into place and bend over and around the edge of the tags it is fully adhered into the Mod Podge. Allow to dry and tie onto gifts or your tree!

Now it's your turn! Create a project featuring a dough tag. You can choose to re-create the exact project from Nichole above or design your own using the same concepts. Your project must also incorporate at least one Papertrey product.

Post your project on your blog, in your gallery, Instagram or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).

Add your project to the InLinkz list below.

You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. One project per person please.

As a reminder, you will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win.

One randomly selected winners will be chosen from all of the InLinkz entries on this post on Thursday, August 31st. The winner will be posted on our Thursday night Stamp-a-faire winners page after 9pm ET. The randomly selected winner will get a $20 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!

One randomly selected winner will be chosen from the comments of this post on Thursday as well. You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st to add your comment and be eligible to win. The randomly selected winner will get a $10 PTI gift certificate.

Have you made your own dough ornaments/tags before? I would be interested to know what you think of this new dough recipe and how it compares. Do you think some of your favorite holiday sentiment stamps will work well for impressing the dough? What types of designs do you think you might try to stamp onto the tissue paper? Can't wait to see your take on this challenge!

"Good afternoon stampers! I’m excited once again to be participating in Stamp-A-Faire, one of my favorite stamping times of the year. And this year is even better, super sized and super fun! How great is the anniversary traditions theme?! I have always loved following the annual traditions to choose gifts for my husband each year, so I was really excited to try my hand at translating one of them into a card project. So here we are at the 9th anniversary tradition: pottery. When I first thought about what I wanted to do, I was immediately inspired by my favorite bowl and the idea of using paperclay to create a “paper pottery” embellishment if you will. Have fun - you’re in the home stretch!!"

Roll out paperclay to the desired size. (Tip: a ziplock bag helps keep it from sticking and makes smoothing it out a little easier)

Stamp a design into the clay in the ink color of choice. (I used small flowers and black ink to match my inspiration piece)

Cut a shape for your "paper pottery" card element (I used a heart die placed on top and cut lightly around it)

Take it further: Create a template to apply embossing paste to the card front (in the shape of a heart, or any design element). Break or cut your paper pottery scraps and apply pieces to the embossing paste shape to create a paper pottery mosaic. Finish it off with a sentiment of choice.

Now it's your turn! Create a project featuring a clay/paperclay embellishment. You can choose to re-create the exact project from Lexi above or design your own using the same concepts. Your project must also incorporate at least one Papertrey product.

Post your project on your blog, in your gallery, Instagram or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).

Add your project to the InLinkz list below.

You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. One project per person please.

As a reminder, you will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win.

One randomly selected winners will be chosen from all of the InLinkz entries on this post on Thursday, August 31st. The winner will be posted on our Thursday night Stamp-a-faire winners page after 9pm ET. The randomly selected winner will get a $20 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!

One randomly selected winner will be chosen from the comments of this post on Thursday as well. You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st to add your comment and be eligible to win. The randomly selected winner will get a $10 PTI gift certificate.

I'm loving the way Lexi was able to incorporate a pottery like embellishment to her card. It could be made to be removable as a keepsake too! What stamps in your stash do you think would make god impressions into the paperclay for this type of technique? We look forward to seeing your projects!